About the Symposium
The emerging concept of Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence (HCAI) involves amplifying, augmentation, empowering and enhancing individuals. HCAI aims to ensure that AI systems operate transparently, deliver fair and equitable outcomes, and respect privacy while preserving human control. This approach involves multiple stakeholders, such as researchers, developers, business leaders, policymakers, and users, who are affected in various ways by implementing and evaluating AI systems.
The Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence Symposium Series (HCAI@OVGU) aims to bring together leading experts, from both academia and industry, who will be invited to provide keynotes about trending and innovative HCAI-related topics, such as Responsible AI, Explainable AI, Fairness, Legal AI, Adaptive and Personalised User Interfaces, Information Ethics, and many more.
HCAI@OVGU is intended to take place once a semester for one or two days at the Faculty of Computer Science of the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (OVGU), and is organised by the Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence Research Group.
The first edition of the Symposium, HCAI@OVGU 2023, is scheduled for November 27-28, 2023.
Target Audience
The HCAI@OVGU Symposium targets individuals interested in studying novel contributions to HCAI approaches, from researchers to practitioners belonging to academia and industry. The Symposium aims to discuss and exchange ideas within the community about the advances in the development of trustworthy, fair and privacy-preserving systems, as well as explainable user interfaces, with a specific focus on the users' perception in real-world scenarios and not (only) on the algorithmic and model performance.
HCAI@OVGU aims to foster cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary discussions between experts from various research fields, such as computer science, psychology, sociology, law, medicine, business, etc., to discuss problems and synergies in this exciting research topic.
Topics
The research topics covered by the Symposium include, but are not limited to, the following:
Speakers
List of speakers who will participate at HCAI@OVGU Symposium 2023 (in alphabetical order).
Schedule
Monday, November 27, 2023
Welcome Coffee
Greetings from the Dean of the Computer Science Faculty
Hans-Knud Arndt
Symposium Opening
Ernesto W. De Luca and Erasmo Purificato
The Power of Two: Exploring the Synergies between Human Intelligence and Machine Learning
Speaker: Florian Michahelles
Coffee Break
Visual Analytics for Human-Centred AI
Speaker: Nathaliya Andriyenko
Discussion
All the speakers invited
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Morning Coffee and Day Opening
Ernesto W. De Luca and Erasmo Purificato
XAI for Building a Foundation of Trust in Productive Teams
Speaker: Sebastian Stober
Coffee Break
Configurations and benefits of human-centered AI applications - Insights from case study analysis
Speaker: Uta Wilkens
Lunch Break
Fairness in Ranking - From Values to Technical Choices and Back
Speaker: Meike Zehlike
Coffee Break
Panel Discussion
All the speakers invited
Symposium Closing
Ernesto W. De Luca and Erasmo Purificato
Organisers
Ernesto William De Luca
Full Professor
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Leibniz Institute for Educational Media |
Georg Eckert Institute, Brunswick, Germany
Erasmo Purificato
Research Assistant
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Leibniz Institute for Educational Media |
Georg Eckert Institute, Brunswick, Germany
Venue
Named after Otto von Guericke (1602 - 1686), the renowned son of Magdeburg and well-known for his research on the vacuum, the Otto von Guericke University (OVGU) was founded in 1993 and is thus one of the youngest universities in Germany: a place where tradition meets innovation. With nine faculties, the university has gained in importance as a notable institution of teaching and research. Roughly 14,000 students are enrolled at the moment and approximately 25% of them are international students. Around 770 doctoral students, among which 285 are from abroad, are researching in various fields of engineering, natural science, medicine, economics, etc.
The event will specifically take place at the Festung Mark ("Kulturwerkstatt"), Hohepfortewall 1, 39104 Magdeburg, Germany.
Contacts
For any request you might have, please contact us at ernesto.deluca@ovgu.de and erasmo.purificato@ovgu.de.
You can also follow us on X (ex Twitter): @hcai_ovgu.